hallucinate

My female owner thinks she hallucinated today – visually and tactilely. She had borrowed a laptop from her course coordinator to be used for the first of her tutorials’ group presentation. As she was running late, she set up the laptop in a haste. The group requested for a mouse and she opened up the extra compartment of the laptop bag in search for one. She found that comprtment to be filled to the brim, with a purse which she assumed to be the course corrdinator’s. Pushing that aside, she found a wireless mouse.

After the group presentation and while watching a video for the rest of the tutorial, she noticed that the wireless mouse was gone and made a mental note to get it from the group. She presumed that one of the students must have packed it away in haste.

At the end of the hour-long tutorial, she started to pack away the laptop and realised to her frustration that she forgot to check with the group regarding the runaway mouse. When she opened the compartment, she saw, with a sinking feeling, that the purse was gone! She searched around, but could not locate both the mouse and the purse. What she found instead (which she didn’t notice before), was a wired mouse.

She felt a sinking feeling within her, so heavy that she felt flattened. She couldn’t work out how the two items went missing, except that someone must have taken it. Despite the sunken feeling, she proceeded with her second class. Halfway through class (during the video screening), she decided that time was of essence and felt that she had to call the course coordinator and inform her of the missing purse and mouse.

Imagine her shock, when the course coordinator said that her wallet was next to her on the table. She also said that she wasn’t sure if she had a wireless mouse in that compartment.

So what did my female owner see and touch earlier? She still couldn’t work it out but yah, was relieved, nonetheless that she didn’t lose anybody’s purse. In this case, she would much rather have hallucinated than be grounded in reality and lose a purse.